Tyranny of the backlog

The backlog is a great idea: all the things we think the team will build, or perhaps: things they might…

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Throwing mud at a wall

Throwing mud at a wall is a metaphor I use again and again. As a description of what I do and…

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Error handling omitted for brevity

Q: What is the difference between programming in college and programming in the real world?A: Error handling Do you remember…

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The power of small declines

Last year I wrote about the power of 1% improvement, and how powerful this can be when that improvement occurs…

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Agile won the war but lost the peace

“I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, … in my mind it was a tall, proud city…

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How should we organize our teams?

Q1: How should we organize our teams? My team is owner of different trading platforms and the core services around…

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Release or be damned

Back when I was still paid to code I had a simple question I posed to troubled development efforts: “Why…

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Organizational structure in the Digital and Agile age

Someone ask the other day: how should a organization be designed? There are two potential answers, which actually aren’t as…

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Best practices considered harmfull

I’ve long worried about “ Best Practices ”. Sure I usually play along at the time but lurking in the…

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